June 4th, 2017 - Mount Wilson Obervatory

Dan Kohne, Trustee of the Mount Wilson Institute, talks about the upcoming Sunday Afternoon Concerts in the Dome on Mount Wilson on June 11th and July 9th. Enjoy the music of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, and Dohnanyi in a unique venue. Find out about the vital role the famous observatory played in some of the biggest discoveries of the 20th Century. Harlow Shapley measured the size of the Milky Way Galaxy and located our position in it and Edwin Hubble proved that the mysterious spiral nebulae, which astronomers had speculated about for decades, are distant galaxies similar to our own and proved that the universe is expanding. Hear more on 5900 Wilshire. Tickets for the Concerts Under the Dome; https://www.mtwilson.edu/concerts/